New Findings on Welfare and Children's Development Summary of a Research Briefing (1997) / Chapter Skim
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How Do Children Fare When Their Mothers Combine Work With Welfare Receipt
How Do Children Fare When Their Mothers Combine Work With Welfare Receipt
Pages 17-20
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Specifically, the stucly compared the effect on children whose mothers were receiving welfare either with or without an employment supplement during a 3-year time frame with those whose mothers were employed and did not receive welfare during the same 3 years. 6The work was based on a study that used the Infant Health and Development Program data set, a sample of 553 low birthweight, preterm children who were 5 years old on assessment, 75 percent of whom were black, and the National Longitudinal Survey-Child Supplement, a sample of 1,736 5- and 6-year-olds, 51 percent of whom were black.
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encourage families tO save for such purchases as improved housing, better education, and cars that facilitate transportation to work and child care-factors that, in turn, may promote healthy development in the tong term? How do child care environ ments mediate the effects of maternal employment among tow-income families?
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